Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:55:57 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> 
> >       CVS           GIT
> >       save file  =  commit
> 
> No.  Saving a file will not give you all the version control history and
> tools and diffs and branching and other tools that committing does under
> git.

What tools and diffs are those?  So far, AFAIU, the only difference
between save-file and GIT commit is that with the latter, you can
start a (local) branch.  If there are other reasons for local commits,
what are they?